Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The founders of civilization : culture and agriculture in Iowa
  • Carnival in the countryside : sideshows and showmen
  • A finer rural civilization : the farm family and the "drift to the cities"
  • A bumper crop of entertainment : fair men, midways and spectacles
  • Agricultural lag : the fair in fiction, in film, and on canvas
  • Conclusion: The fair and Iowa's history.